@healthtepi.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @reenamahajan.bsky.social @urbantruth.bsky.social

“Safe street projects used a variety of design measures. Most effective was a combination of a reduced road width and vertical treatments—like raised pavements…” www.transport.wa.gov.au/getmedia/db3... @reenamahajan.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @healthtepi.bsky.social

"The government is spending £27 billion on new road building projects. There is no 'war on motorists.' That is absolute misinformation." - @zackpolanski.bsky.social @urbantruth.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social www.tiktok.com/@zackpolansk...

You can expect that we’re going to repeat our messages. For the same reason they repeat their lies. #UrbanTruth #RepetitionWorks

For the first time in more than a decade, Australia has new physical activity guidelines. They’re commendable but unlikely to get us more active.

Stronger gambling laws can prevent devastating harms including: ⚠️family and domestic violence ⚠️homelessness ⚠️mental health crises ⚠️suicide. Full Healthway submission: www.healthway.wa.gov.au/wp-content/u...

ICYMI: Yesterday, I released my chat with Dr. Tepi Mclaughlin from Perth, Australia, about the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity. Now available in audio-only and full video formats 👇 www.activetowns.org/2025/12/04/s...

YAY! IT’S PREMIERE DAY: Pls tune in today, Wed, Dec 3rd, at 2 pm EST for my chat with @healthtepi.bsky.social from Perth, Australia, about the institutional subsidization of motonormativity that directly contributes to epidemic levels of physical inactivity. youtu.be/ZGIatCdRQVY

The War on … Walking and Biking? - usa.streetsblog.org/2025/09/09/t... via @usa.streetsblog.org, @keawilson.bsky.social, and @healthtepi.bsky.social

🚨 New ASPA Radio episode! We speak with Dr. @healthtepi.bsky.social on his new paper about who are the enemies of #physicalactivity. Listen here 👉 open.spotify.com/episode/0bvc... #PublicHealth #UrbanPlanning

The evidence for more 20mph zones ⤵️ ✔️ Cut deaths and serious injuries by 1/3 ✔️ Protect children ✔️ Reduce crashes ✔️ Lower noise ✔️ Boost walking & cycling

🚨New Paper Alert: Physical activity has enemies. 🚶‍♀️ 🌳 To sharpen advocacy, we need to know who our enemies are and how they operate. DOI: lnkd.in/gf8E9fZb 🙏 @jpahjournal.bsky.social and coauthor team @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social @benjaminrigby.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social

Otherwise known as $4 million in subsidies for car dependency. Free parking is a stupid concept that is unfair on the poor, locking in noisy and smoggy cities. 🚗 💨 I’d have preferred more 🌳 🌷 and footpaths for 🚶‍♀️. I take my vote seriously for local elections.

Share your latest research, transformative programs, and policy-shaping initiatives at ASPA 2025 in Newcastle, Australia! Submit your abstract by 30 June: aspactivity.org/conference-2... #ASPA2025 #physicalactivity #research #policy #innovation

The answer for a lower cost of living is walkable neighborhoods!

🏆 JPAH's Best Best Intervention, Policy, or Advocacy Article (2024) 🏆 “Advocating for Implementation of the Global Action Plan on Physical Activity: Challenges and Support Requirements” Free to read: doi.org/10.1123/jpah... Congrats to the authors!!

"It is not the primary need of man to traverse distances with the rapidity of a motor car" - Gandhi, Mohandas. Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule, 1909. @healthtepi.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @thewaroncars.bsky.social @keawilson.bsky.social @katjadiehl.bsky.social @activetowns.bsky.social

Great to be supporting a very practical workshop at #Prevention2025, focused on how a political science lens could help bring a national #PhysicalActivity action plan to fruition to help more Aussies to move more. Read ASPA’s call to action here: aspactivity.org/advocacy/a-c...

If you haven't yet had the pleasure, meet Tepi Mclaughlin, who recently published in JPAH a process evaluation study of the scale-up of a school-based physical activity program for adolescents. doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2024-0038 @healthtepi.bsky.social

Great new initiative from @jpahjournal.bsky.social and its particularly pleasing to see previous leaders of the ISPAH early career network @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social @healthtepi.bsky.social recognised for their contribution 👏😁

Fantastic to our paper led by @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social in this list! 👏 🥇 🏆 journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

Campaign looks great #TalkAboutFood "For many years, many public health bodies have been encouraging people to eat healthily, but it is virtually impossible to do so within an environment that doesn’t support this." Dr. Gary Kearney, CEO, Safefood 30-sec Ad: youtu.be/qIxkQYOVpzs?...

In #Budget25, Beer excise is a bigger revenue raiser than the PRRT, one of our main taxes on the gas industry. Failing to fix the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax was a missed opportunity. Our research shows big gas continues to be a systemic non-payer of tax, while Australians miss out. #auspol

6. Dominic Malcolm et al show how neoliberalism leads to healthism, which promotes exercise which diverge from health maximising behaviours, and how this extends differences in PA uptake, which embeds the health inequalities PAHP is explicitly claimed to address. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

8 articles for changing your mind about physical activity, human movement, and health. 1. @benjaminrigby.bsky.social et al encourage us to pause and reflect on how our advocacy might inadvertently be limiting our efforts to try populations more active. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New video relating to our article in The Conversation www.instagram.com/reel/DGnFXTD... New video from @aunz.theconversation.com

If you're at all interested in commercial determinants of health #CDoH and health harming industries, then this article from @maizie333.bsky.social and colleagues is a must read.

Walking and cycling get 90c per person each year from the Australian government. What if that figure rose to $5, $10 or $15?

Drivers would benefit from a change to transport funding, here's how theconversation.com/australia-sp...

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath grist.org/biking/one-m...

🔔 Final chance, survey closes Friday 31st Jan

a cultural thing.

In our NEW PAPER, as early career researchers, our call to action is... "advance the understanding of the role of POLITICS IN PHYSICAL ACTIVITY..." Read free: doi.org/10.1093/heap... P. McCue, @brittanyswelam.bsky.social @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social & S.Edney for @healthpromint.bsky.social

🚨Survey closes in 2-weeks🚨 What do you think is the top priority action to boost physical activity in your country? Let us know here: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/sps/rapid-... Survey team: @healthtepi.bsky.social, @grantennis.bsky.social, Jo Salmon, Andrea Ramirez Varela and Jim Sallis

Fantastic to see the flagship physical activity journal on Bluesky! Welcome @jpahjournal.bsky.social journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

Two weeks to go on our rapid survey!! Closes 31st January 2025. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/sps/rapid-... Now is your opportunity to share your views! Survey team: @joeyjmurphy.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social Jo Salmon; Andrea Ramirez Varela and Jim Sallis

50 cent fares are a distraction. Some short distance fares are too expensive, but there are better ways of fixing that. The priority for cost-of-living relief is upgrading public transport services and frequency so more people have the option of not having to drive everywhere.

Teamed up with the one and only @brenttoderian.bsky.social to put together this Starter Pack of voices that are changing the broad conversation around better cities, the creative and persuasive organizations and people who are shifting the discussion. go.bsky.app/7iNmiCU

The junk food crisis harming Britain’s children www.ft.com/content/b503... A. It'll not be solved by Celeb Chefs in Schools Self regulation Cookery classes Campaigns B. It'll be solved by govt regulation With interventions focused on price, advertising, reformulation, availability

Anyone know anything about these in the UK? “Home Zones”

www.linkedin.com/pulse/third-... @felly500.bsky.social @healthtepi.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social

Hey Bluesky. Does population physical activity promotion have enemies? Yes or no. If yes, who?

Physical Activity Survey: - What do you think the top priority action for physical activity is in your country? - Do you think it is technically feasible? - What about politically feasible? Please complete and share the 8-minute ‘rapid survey’: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/sps/rapid-...

Interesting survey for physical activity professionals

Working in physical activity? Get around this Starter Pack created by @benjane.bsky.social go.bsky.app/DsHNWPf

New updates made to this #Starterpack for #PhysicalActivity researchers and advocates. Message me to be on it. The more the merrier! go.bsky.app/DsHNWPf

What a fantastic experience! #ASPA2024 I am so grateful for the opportunity to lead the local organisation of the conference. Many thanks to everyone who made it possible 👏 See you in Newcastle for #ASPA2025